With more than 40 dead after protests against Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s attempt to stay in power, Friends of the Congo representatives and a Congolese youth organizer discuss what’s at stake for the country’s citizens Story Transcript JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. Last month, massive […]
Author Archives: Ben Kabamba
Ben Kabamba is the President of Jeunesse Pour Une Nouvelle Societe (Youth for a New Society), a Congolese youth activist group. He helped organize the demonstrations of January 19-22, 2015 in the Congo, in which students, religious leaders and civil society protested an attempt to change the Congolese electoral law that would permit President Kabila to stay in office beyond his mandated two-term limit.
Ben is also coordinator for a coalition of youth organizations in the Congo called FILIMBI
Youth for a New society is a collection of Congolese youth who seeks to train and educate Congolese youth about their rightful role in the social transformation of Congolese society.
The mission is to provide new, dynamic and responsible leadership at all levels of the Congolese society.
Given the state of poverty, misery, lack of information and corrupt values that serve as a scourge on Congolese society, Youth for a New Society is committed to providing on the one hand, moral support to African youth in general and Congolese in particular and on the other hand, produce self-reliant solutions for a better future for Africa and the Congo.
